Razor Blades Behind Posters (London) – Belgium ULs – Hitler Survival Scam

 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52619350

BBC

11 May 2020

Coronavirus: 'Razor blades in anti-5G posters' on telegraph poles

Razor blades have been hidden behind anti-5G posters on telegraph poles, telecoms engineers are being warned. […] An OpenReach spokeswoman said: "We've received reports from other telecommunications companies that anti-5G posters have started to appear on street equipment - particularly in London. "On closer inspection, the posters have had razor blades and needles stuck on the back. Fortunately none of our engineers have encountered these dangerous items, but we've given them guidance about what to do if they do find any."

=====

https://spokus.eu/en/urban-legends-in-belgium-aurore-van-de-winkel/

Spokus [France]

18 May 2020

Urban Legends in Belgium – An Interview with Aurore Van de Winkel

=====

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kentucky-miner-who-scammed-americans-by-claiming-he-was-hitler-and-plotting-a-revolt-with-spaceships

The Daily Beast

21 May 2020

The Kentucky Miner Who Scammed Americans by Claiming He Was Hitler and Plotting a ‘Revolt’ With ‘Spaceships’

[…] In hundreds of letters mailed between 1946 and 1956, “Furrier No. 1” explained that he was, despite misspelling his title and writing in vernacular English, Adolf Hitler. As it turned out, both he and Braun had survived! They had set up camp in Kentucky to plot a “new revolt” and take over the United States, then the world, and finally: outer space. Hitler and his gang of 36,000 German dissidents were hard at work digging tunnels from the nearby mountains to Washington, D.C., to aid their revolution. […] Everything was going according to plan, “Furrier No. 1” explained, but he needed help: specifically, in the form of a generous contribution to the cause. […]

Licking Pages Impregnated with LSD

The Rag (Austin, Texas), vol. 3, no. 28, 25 August 1969, p. 11. Cryptic notice in upper right-hand corner.

=====

Dan Carlinsky, ed., College Humor (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 199. Updated version of Carlinsky, A Century of College Humor (1971). A cartoon from Gargoyle, a student-run humor magazine out of the University of Michigan. “We’ve put a drop containing 500 mikes [micrograms] of LSD on this star in 50 issues of the Gargoyle. Chew it, and you may get very high!”

=====

Sean Stewart, ed., On the Ground: An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press in the U.S. (Oakland: PM Press, 2011), p. 97.

[Abe Peck, former editor of Seed, a Chicago underground paper:] But most of our sales were on the street with this army of street sellers. When I went downtown, there’d be a seller on every corner. They’d be yelling, “Hey, get your Seed here!” or they’d say, “LSD on page four!” or “Read your hippie paper here!” You know, just funny chants. It was a carnival kind of scene.

 =====

 “ ‘Kids Oz’ not aimed at schoolchildren, says editor,” The Daily Telegraph (London), 29 June 1971, p. 3.

[Richard Neville, a co-editor of OZ, an underground newspaper, was on trial at the Old Bailey for publishing an obscene publication. During the examination, Crown Prosecutor Brian Leary referred to an ad in the paper.]

One advertisement, for the “Mind Bending Acid Oz,” said: “Packed with facts, information and the real dope (suck the corner of page 46) on that short cut to Heaven and Hell.”

Mr Leary suggested that a child might have thought that there was something in the page and sucked it.

“All they would have got was some ink on their lips,” replied Neville. No one would have believed that if they sucked the page they would have “got high within minutes.”

It was merely a reference to a rumour that LSD could be impregnated in paper, and that “trips" could be produced by sucking such things as postage stamps or envelopes.

“Back Issue Bonanza” (detail), OZ (London) #28, May 1970, p. 25.